Serious unclassified road crash in Moray IV30 on 19 May 2018 at 17:00 involving a Lexmoto Viper 125 motorcycle
A Lexmoto Viper 125 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Moray at 17:00 on Saturday 19 May 2018. The 22-year-old male rider of the Lexmoto Viper 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 May 2018
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexmoto Viper 125 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.63398, longitude -3.28469, in the IV30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Moray
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018921800265
- Council area
- Moray
- Police force
- Grampian
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 66 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 July 2016.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 13 July 2016
66 m awayRef 2016921600663
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 23 July 1999
153 m awayRef 1999929902802
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 5 December 1980
241 m awayRef 1980928007913
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 3 October 2000
324 m awayRef 2000920003485
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 17 August 1985
338 m awayRef 1985928505590
Slight
Renault 20 crash on an unclassified road in Moray, 27 September 1990
383 m awayRef 1990929006258
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Viper 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Viper 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2018921800265 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Moray road accident statistics for 2018.